argle-bargle

A couple of days later Bargle was sitting up smoking, when the engineer entered the reed-thatched hut, in company with Dick.

Man, the nurse was argle-barglin' a clock hour tryin' to persuade me to put thae claes on.

Some of the boys argle-bargle on Sundays, he says, but most of them fight.

And the peculiar part of the business is,” said Mr Marston, “that big Bargle saw the person who fired the last of the houses.

The little things for argle-bargle, the big uns' for smokin', that's what I sez!